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02-20-2004, 09:55 PM
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How hard is it
How hard is it to chang a leaf spring truck to a coil spring i am thinking of buying a swb truck and it has leaf springs on it i all ready have a truck with a coil system on it and was wondiring how hard is it to swap them out. thanks all so how much fabercaing will i have to do or is it a driect swap.
The truck that has the leaf sprig is a 70 and i have a 71 with coil. Thanks again
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02-21-2004, 12:15 AM
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can any body pleas tell me thanks i kind need to know by the end of the weekend thanks for the help
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02-21-2004, 01:17 AM
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Why do you want to swap rear ends?
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02-21-2004, 01:45 AM
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its all about the +6 inches
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I personally have no idea, but I think I remember 'ole fast68 saying it was not real easy. I think he was saying the frames are not the same.
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02-21-2004, 10:15 AM
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My guess would be to find a coil frame rob the crossmember that the trailing arm's attach to and all the assorted bracket's for the shock's and panhard bar...May also want to check on the frame's to see if they are the same or not... It is gonna be alot of work to be done but it can be done..
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02-21-2004, 10:43 AM
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I think the frames are the same.
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02-21-2004, 01:04 PM
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You need a LWB or SWB doner. Then swap the parts over Iam pretty sure the frame are the same.
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02-21-2004, 06:25 PM
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thanks to all
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02-21-2004, 10:29 PM
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I did exactly the opposite, changed from trailing arms to leafs. Its a lot of work but no big deal. It took me about 2 days by myself to make the switch.
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